The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-03
CHOICE EXTRACTS.
Pardon all but thyself. Georg

Pardon all but thyself.-George
Herbert.
The foundation Of domestic happi-
ness is faith in the virtue of women;
the foundation Of political happiness is
confidence in the integrity Of man; the
foundation of all happiness, temporal
and eternal, is reliance on the goodness
of God.-Lander.
"A vascilsting walk, a backwardness
to take bold and decided line, read
mess to conform to the world, hesi-
tating witness for Christ, a lingering
tone for religion-all these make up a
sure recipe for bringing blight upon
the garden of your soul.-Bishop Ryle.
Without the New Testament, the
Old Testament would labyrinth with
out clue, syllogism withouta a con-
clusion, riddle without solution, q
torso without head, moon without q
sun, since Christ is the proper inter-
prefer of the Old Testament.-Delitzsch.
in all your enjoyments, therefore,
be moderate. Set your heart in the
love of God and the faith of Christ,
and difficulties will disappear. The
inner life in you will assimulate to the
divine everywhere. and return its own
blessed and consecrating influence to
all your work and all your amuse-
ments. Principal 1Mlloch.
% what load Of struggle and
distress
Falls off before the cross! The
feverish care;
The wish that we were other than
we are;
The sick regrets; the yearnings
numberless.
-Chauncey Hare TosOnshesd.
Right breads not the scrutiny Of
the Investigator. Truth can stand the
MONDAY brightness. The Bible can
endure the electric fash. The friends
of Jesus need not fear when the citadel
of their faith is stormed. Christianity
is invincible. The severest tests and
most hostile criticism only bring into
bolder relief its verify, its beauty and
its excellence Standard.
We hear a great deal in these days
about answers to the infidel, about
arguments philosophical, historical and
scientific, which shall have the power,
in the hands of skillful men, of silenc.
ing the antagonist. But better argu'
ment, and mightier, than any Ol
these, an argument that never fails, fol
the man who reads your history with
criticism and meets your argument will
argument will bare his head and bend
his neck before the spectacle Of q holy
and devoted life, that this is true what
ever else be false-that this is of Goi
whatever becomes of books and insti
tutions.-Rev. DR.. Moorhous.
Why should we save timer Be
cause we are souls, pent in the body
living in time but not limited to time
having a temporal experience bu
pledged by creation to an eternal des
Tiny. Why should we save timer Be
cause time is the sphere of opportunity
and duty; because time Is a gift for thu
use Of which we are responsible to God
In time we do our work and build ou
characters, and accomplish our growth
Moreover, time is short, and its littl'
space is subject to deaths invasion
Who knows when he shall dieP w,
have all lived year, but who of US Cal
count with certainty on living anothe
yearp 1t was an old custom to place il
the hands of corpse an hour-glass il
which all the sands had run down. Blu
it were wiser thing to put an hour
glass in the living hand. that ther
might be before the mind in the sink
ing sand symbol Of times uneeasinI
lnDae.-ReA Rkijip &. Aox0pa